UNSCAM Profit Center
U.N.: 2,000 Firm Gave Iraq Illicit Funds - That is the AP headline. You think they could of done better.
More than 2,000 companies made about $1.8 billion in illicit payments to Saddam Hussein’s government through extensive manipulation of the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, according to key findings of a U.N.-backed investigation.
The report — to be released in full Thursday by the committee probing claims of wrongdoing in the $64 billion program — indicates that about half the 4,500 companies doing business with Iraq paid illegal surcharges on oil purchases or kickbacks on contracts to supply humanitarian goods.
The investigators reported that companies and individuals from 66 countries paid illegal kickbacks through a variety of devices while those paying illegal oil surcharges came from, or were registered in, 40 countries. The names will be included in Thursday’s report but were not in the key findings that were obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
Well it is nice to see that this is still developing and that the MSM might be actually starting to report on it. Hopefully it will end with the removal of Kofi Annan. We can only hope.
So now it looks as though the Oil for Food Scam was setup as profit centers for UN pet companies instead of a way of helping Iraqi’s under the thumb of Saddam. It is hard to believe that any of those Iraqi’s were even helped with this sham of a program.
UNSCAM, what a disgrace.
Kofi Annan, what a disgrace.
All this adds to the reasons why liberals cannot be trusted and must be stopped.